Consider a situation where your Mac is running slow and you’re trying to troubleshoot. Then, you figure there may be a problem with your hard drive and run Disk Repair. Upon running Disk Repair, you get an error ‘Invalid Catalog Record Type’. This article helps you recover data from the drive and fix this error.
About Error: Invalid Catalog Record Type
This is a less common error that indicates corruption in your Mac hard drive. To explain further, Mac OS is divided into different volumes, similar to other OS’s. Each volume contains 4 items: files, file threads, directories and directory threads. The Mac OS keeps a record to define these items and these records are called catalog files. Any corruption in these files leads to the error ‘Invalid Catalog Record Type’. To fix this error, you will need to backup data first and then reformat your drive.
How to recover data from Mac?
In order to backup data, professional data recovery tools are required to recover inaccessible data. Hi5 Mac Data Recovery software is specifically designed for this purpose. It uses robust scanning algorithms and scans your drive sector by sector to retrieve data. The software uses a read-only mechanism, so your original files are not altered during the recovery process.
The software can also be used to recover data from formatted Mac volumes. It can also be used to recover data from corrupt, inaccessible and RAW drives. It can also be used to recover files deleted from boot camp. The article how to restore boot camp partition explains the process in detail.
Compatibility of Hi5 Software for Mac
- The software supports all file systems such as HFS, HFS+ file systems.
- Supports all versions of Mac OS including the latest High Sierra
- Supports all Mac devices such as MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini etc.
- In addition to recovering data from your internal drives, the software also supports external hard drives, USB’s, etc.
Steps to recover data from Mac
Hi5 software is easy to use and efficient software for data recovery. Data can be recovered in a few simple steps.
- Connect the drive which shows ‘Invalid catalog record type’ to a healthy Mac
- Then download Hi5 Data recovery software on to the healthy Mac machine and install the software
- Run the software and select Recover Volumes/Drives
- Then click on Volumes Recovery
- Select the corrupt the hard drive from the list of available drives
- Choose a scanning option. The standard scan is a quick scan and used for most data loss scenarios. The advanced option can be used if the Standard scan does not recover your data.
- A list of recovered files are displayed once scanning is complete
- You can preview the files and save them to the desired location
Now that you have recovered files from the hard drive, you can reformat it for further use. However, it can be hard to trust a hard drive completely after you receive such error messages. Hence, it is always a good idea to have a backup of all data if you decide to use the hard drive further.
